IsoBuster 3.9 Released!

December 19, 2016

I'm very happy to announce the release of IsoBuster 3.9.

From this version onwards you can define your own file signatures, and look for them on any type media via a search for missing files and folders. For instance if you have a special type or custom file you want to look for, or for a whole lot of other engineering purposes of course.

There is now also full support for compressed system files in NTFS volumes. This is different from the normally (and already supported) compressed files. It's a new feature introduced by Microsoft since Windows 10.

And last but not least the software can now make full copies or clones of hard drives and partitions. In other words, extract directly to HD rather than to a file. Combined with the 'Managed' image file functionality it is also possible to keep track of all the bad or unread sectors when making the clone. This is ideal for recovery specialists that can try to recover a HD directly to another HD. Another great use for this feature is the possibility to load an image file for a hard drive or USB stick (e.g. DSK or VHD / VHDX or VMDK or ..) , and put (clone) its content directly to a real Hard Drive or USB stick.

Added a WIM Tab to NTFS File properties, when the file is actually stored in a WIM [Professional license]

Clone an entire drive (partitions and all) or a single partition, to another Hard Drive or partition

Perform a so called 'Managed' Clone of a drive (partitions and all) to another Hard Drive. This is the same as making a managed IBP but the IBQ is written to a source Hard Disk instead of a file [Professional license]

Support for the Opera 3DO file system

Support for B6T and B6I image files

Clicking an address in the Properties window launches Sector View, showing the content of that address

Small cosmetic change (not perfect) to avoid previous small file's name to be displayed during huge file extraction

A few improvements, changes and re-writes in the core code / engine, as this is a living project and to deal with the ever growing new functionality

Various other, not listed, GUI improvements

Fixes:

If the IBP/IBQ Complete OnDemand Mode was turned on and next turned off again before closing the file (Via the IBP/IBQ Manager), changes would be lost

Fixed command line parameter /p: to always work on the correctly selected Partition

Turned off overlay icons display by default, because it can cause weird visual effects on some Windows 10 systems

ISO9660 with more folders in the pathtable than than the root folder (illegal situation), could be expanded two ways, depending on what path was followed. This has been fixed and everything is now shown always

Aborting creation of an IBP/IBQ file could cause IsoBuster to think all sectors above that point in the source were unreadable. Cosmetic only, extraction would still simply work

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